Despite all the crap that has gone on with the Rock this year, and like it or not, there has been crap. All the way from silly trades, poor drafting, dismal performance in some games...the year did not go as it should have. I think we all knew this team would not be very good, and we just chose not to admit it. But the one positive thing to take out of the first meaningless game in Roch history was what Jim Veltman has done for this team, lacrosse in Ontario and the city of Toronto.
Veltman established so many marks for loose balls (the season one was broken on Sunday by Geoff Snider, but Veltman didn't have the luxary of taking faceoffs and having them count as loose balls), put up a lot of good offensive seasons (if you average his stats over 16 games from earlier on, he would be up in the 80-90 point ranges in some), he won championships, and he was a class act. Leadership is hard to define, and even a good leader will have trouble carrying a bad lacrosse team, but Veltman is one of those rare people who had a knack to get more out of his teammates then they would by themselves.
We can only hope that Veltman's #32 will take to the rafters at the ACC, and that he will bring a new, fresh philosophy to the Rock's coaching, and what I hope one day, management team. You already know he has more capability to run the Rock than Kloepfer.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment